Amplitude, the studio behind Humankind, has announced last weekend that they will become an independent studio, not anymore affiliated with SEGA. The owners apparently bought the company back, and will probably be looking for another interesting project. Join us to discuss this here.
New developer From Chaos introduces the turned-based/real-time strategy game Liegecraft to Civfanatics. Former staff of well-known companies such as Paradox and CD Projekt comprise From Chaos.
Message From the Liegecraft team to Civfanatics:
“Hello Civfanatics, Tomek here – Game Director of Liegecraft!
I’m glad we are able to reach out to this superb community gathered around a series we also love here at From Chaos. Liegecraft is a medieval turn based sandbox strategy with deep role playing aspect. We are inspired a lot by the Civilization series. If you like the description above, then be sure you will find some nice similarities to Civilization in Liegecraft and it is definitely something interesting for you to check out!”
Please take a look at the first trailer below to experience the interesting gameplay and aesthetics of this game:
Liegecraft is currently in development with a scheduled Early Access release in 2025. Feel free to discuss this exciting new game here
The Humble Bundle has again the Sid Meier collection on sale.
This includes obviously our beloved Civ titles, from Civ3 to Civ6 (including DLCs and addons), with also Civ:BE (including Starships), followed by Sid Meier’s Pirates, Railroads, Ace Patrol and Pacific Sky.
To ge the whole bundle with all the titles you only need to pay 16.62, which is a steal for the time you get out of it. You can pay more (and it is encouraged to do so), and donate to Covenant House, which help homeless youth, or to the Michael J. Fox Foundation, to combat Parkinson.
If you are missing any of the titles, then you have the chance to get the bundle from now for another 19 days.
Click here to buy the bundle, and check here to discuss this offer with us.
Zephon is a turn-based 4X game, which it makes it interesting for us, although all similarities to Civ already end at this place. The setting is a post-apocalyptic, Warhammer-40k inspired world with monstrous abominations, where your faction is fighting for survival. It seems to have all the 4X traits you need, such as diplomacy, city management and tech trees. If you’re looking for some non-historic game until Civ7 is released, then this might be a good candidate. Zephon is available for 39.99 on Steam. If you want to discuss this game with us, then join us in our thread here.
Firaxis released today 4 more civ soundtracks, this time for Mongolia, Persia, the Abbasids and Spain! Check out our soundtrack thread here.
We got a dev diary today about the upcoming DLC, “Atomic Ambitions”. As obvious from the name, the DLC is going nuclear. The summary says that it “brings sweeping updates to Siege, adds Pollution, introduces nuclear power, puts nuclear weapons in your arsenal, and much more”, something which Civ players will certainly appreciate.
You can read the whole dev diary here, and discuss it with us here.
We got a lot of new information from the Civ7 November live stream!
Spain got revealed as an exploration age civ. Spain is an expansionist and militaristic civ with a coastal starting bias. They got boni if they convert towns to cities in distant lands, incread combat strengths in distant lands, and they get a special conquistador UU, which all have unique abilities. For more info please check the thread. We got no thread for the new civ Mexico though, as we only got a glimpse on the name in the live stream.
Spain though will most of the time probably be lead by Isabella. She is economic and expansionist, and dislikes players with a lot of natural wonders. She gets a starting bias towards natural wonders, and her special ability will give her more gold from natural wonders. For more info please see the thread here.
We also got new information on religion, which is a mechanic from the exploration age. There are 12 religions in total, which can be customized with different beliefs. They get temples as buildings, which are necessary to build missionaries. For more info please check here.
For the exploration/military side, we also got interesting news. While commanders are land units which allow you to easier organize your army, we also get fleet commanders at sea. They seem to be working like normal commanders, getting customizable boni, and Spain gets some specific unique units which give them boni. For more information please check here.
Tomorrow at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM GMT / 7PM CET we get another live stream about the exploration age, showcasing the exploration of new lands and some new mechanics of the exploration era! Check our thread here for the streams and discussion.
We also got today the 3rd dev diary, this time talking about empire management. Firaxis explains here more about how towns work, how they are specialized and how this all works with the settlement cap. For more info please click here.